Lexique et phraséologie dans les rapports de stage en traduction : étude de corpus
(2013) Le Langage et l’Homme — Vol. 48, n° 2, p. 45-67 (2013)
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- (en) Internship reports, i.e. academic papers in which students describe and reflect on their first work experience, can be used to investigate mother-tongue proficiency before the start of young graduates’ professional career. This case study reports on a corpus-based analysis of ca. 150 internship reports written by Master’s students at the Marie Haps School for Translators and Interpreters (Brussels, Belgium). A cursory glance at the reports shows that there are relatively few spelling mistakes but that stylistic shortcomings are numerous. The objective of our article is to identify these recurrent shortcomings, focusing on lexis, with the help of corpus-linguistic tools (Sketch Engine, WordSmith Tools 5) and methods. We first discuss the most frequent verbs and adjectives, as well as single- and multi-word discourse markers, with a view to bringing to light their all-purpose uses. In addition, we propose a manual analysis of a sample of reports to examine students’ use of registers (confusion between spoken/informal register vs. written/formal register). The article ends with some suggestions for a writing style guide devoted to issues of style and lexis.
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Delcour, M., Lefer, M.-A., & Maubille, G. (2013). Lexique et phraséologie dans les rapports de stage en traduction : étude de corpus. Le Langage et l’Homme, 48(2), 45-67. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/195288 (Original work published 2013)